The Google Photos Assistant (which I’m really loving!!) just produced this today when I uploaded some old stuff which I’m trying to archive. It’s from our trip in 2013 and brought back some wonderful memories.
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The Curse of False Doctrine
I snapped this while passing through the centre of Zomba last month. This huge billboard overlooks the bus depot where we have had a number of very fruitful times of open-air preaching and Seed Sower/tract distribution.
Malawi is awash with the destructive, demonic Word-Faith “Prosperity Gospel” which diverts attention from eternal to temporal things, and spiritual to material.
Please pray that as we embark upon a concerted effort to reach the lost next month that the true Gospel will win many hearts.
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Psalm 20:7
“Some trust in chariots, and some in horses:
But we will remember the name of the Lord our God.”
http://ref.ly/r/kjv1900/Ps20.7
It’s just two weeks now until the outreach team starts their respective journeys to Malawi.
I enjoyed the encouragement of this Psalm this morning, remembering again the strength that is in the Name of the Lord our God, but felt something of the challenge of it too as I wondered if the Lord granted me according to mine own heart, fulfilled all my counsel (v4), and fulfilled all my petitions (v5) would that honor Him, or just glorify me?
Maybe that’s why so few of my prayers are answered!
Our website www.goodnewsmalawi.com has had a much needed overhaul.
It is still a work in progress, but please feel free to have a look – and remember to “like” our Facebook page too.
It’s hard to believe, but there are, indeed, less than 3 weeks to go until the start of our 2015 Seed Sowers outreach effort.
Unfortunately we have had a couple of late cancellations due to unavoidable personal situations, and although the team of volunteers will certainly be smaller than previous years, we go forward looking to the Lord for His blessing.
We have printed almost twice as many texts as we had available in earlier years, and these are being bagged up in Malawi, together with a copy of the latest edition of Exploring God’s Word, in anticipation of our arrival, so that we will be able to make a prompt start and distribute as many texts as possible.
Please pray for help and blessing.
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Update and Prayer Request
Thank you sincerely for praying concerning my recent short visit to Malawi – my second of this year, so far. It has been good to see the literature work moving forward, and we continue to be really encouraged by the number of contacts generated – some expressing interest in salvation and others looking for supplies of literature to distribute themselves. As mentioned in previous correspondence, we estimate that around 500,000 items of Gospel literature have been published and distributed over the past couple of years, and we praise the Lord for making this possible, and for the promised blessing upon His Word. I will shortly be turning my attention to the publication of the 2016 Gospel Calendar, and the next edition of Exploring God’s Word which I hope to ship to arrive in good time for my November visit, DV.
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Building Materials
We are helping 5 or 6 vulnerable families in the villages near Bro. Goodson Chintanda, including Bro. Goodson himself as he and his family have been living under plastic sheeting since his own home collapsed. This is a remote area on a hillside overlooking the Lirangwe valley and getting buildings materials there is difficult and costly. In order to minimise transport costs we pre-purchased many of the bulkier items necessary, and hired a truck to take this to Goodson’s home in a single trip.
The shopping list included:
- 45 Bags of Cement
- 15 Door Frames
- 15 Window Frames
- 6 Rolls of DPC
- 30 Rolls of “Brick Force” wire
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Prayer Request – Malawi Visit
I’d like to request your prayers for journeying mercies and blessing upon a further visit to Malawi. Last evening I completed an enjoyable series of Ministry Meetings with the assembly at Saltash, Cornwall and set off this evening from London Heathrow.
There are a number of practical issues to sort out in anticipation of our outreach visit in August, and I also hope to progress several small projects to help various vulnerable individuals who were adversely affected by the storms earlier this year. And I will, of course, be seeking to engage in further open-air preaching and literature distribution.
Gail and Philip remain at home again on this occasion.
Plans for our third Gospel Outreach trip to Malawi are well underway. We hope to distribute a large quantity of bi-lingual “Seed Sower” texts and other Gospel literature, as well as open-air Gospel preaching and Children’s work during the month of August, Lord willing.
Although we have almost a full complement of volunteers, there is still room remaining for two or three more. This is by no means limited to young people and would be a great opportunity for any brother or sister with a heart for the lost and an interest in spreading the Gospel to help bring the Word of God to people with a genuine willingness to receive it.
If you are interested, please let us know. Feel free to pass this on to others who may also be interested.
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Thank God for His Goodness!
I’ve just returned a few days ago from my latest visit to Malawi, and want to sincerely thank all who were praying while I was away.
Without going into detail, early in this trip I had probably the most harrowing experience of my life when I collided with an elderly pedestrian, through absolutely no fault of my own. Although for some time I was certain that I had killed her and probably sent her to a lost eternity, quite miraculously – and I really mean that – her life was spared, and in fact she survived the incident better than the robust old Land Rover Discovery I was driving, sustaining just a cut to the head and some severe bruising.
We are so thankful to the Lord for graciously sparing the woman’s life, for sparing me the anguish of having really killed her, and the untold trouble which would surely have followed had that actually been so. We thank Him too for resultant opportunities to bear testimony in the Gospel.
As you join with us in thanksgiving, please pray for the lady, Margaret, her friends and family. Doubtless God has spoken to them. And please pray too for the tens of thousands of items of Gospel leaflets which have been distributed during this visit – may all be for the glory of God, and the blessing of lost souls.
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